Researchers built an AI therapist that reads your smartwatch and earbuds to detect distress before you ask for help

Mental health chatbots all share the same limitation: the user has to reach out first. That is not always easy when someone is stressed, anxious, or unable to articulate how they feel. Researchers at [...]

One symlink trick breaks 6 top AI coding agents, from Amazon

Security firm Wiz found one old Unix trick that breaks six popular AI coding assistants, from Amazon Q to Cursor. A booby-trapped repository can walk an agent past its own safety prompt. The payoff is [...]

Notion is shutting down its email client because AI agents already do the job

Notion is shutting down Notion Mail on September 22, less than 18 months after making the email product available to users. The company said the decision reflects a broader shift in how people interac [...]

Predatorgate victims sue the spyware maker for €8M

Greece’s Predator spyware scandal has reached the courts. Eight people it spied on want €1 million each from the firm that built it. Eight victims of Greece’s “Predatorgate” wiretapping scan [...]

Seoul court suspends the order making Coupang’s founder its controlling person

Coupang has won the first round of its fight with South Korea’s competition regulator. The Seoul High Court on Tuesday suspended the Fair Trade Commission’s decision to name founder Bom Kim as t [...]

TensorX and Solstice line up $1bn to finance Europe’s sovereign AI buildout

The partnership will fund EU AI hardware and data centres, and launch aiUSX, a yield asset that puts companies’ idle AI cash to work as infrastructure lending. Building sovereign AI in Europe takes [...]

Two more Gemini researchers are leaving Google for Anthropic

Two leading artificial intelligence researchers at Google are planning to leave for Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report on June 24, the latest departures from the team behind Gemini and the sec [...]

Google is killing Assistant on phones September 4. Gemini is the only option left.

Google confirmed in emails to users that Assistant on Android phones will shut down starting September 4, forcing everyone to Gemini. The process may take several weeks to complete, so holdouts may ge [...]

Adobe for Slack turns chat threads into Firefly images, video and PDFs

Adobe for Slack lets Slackbot turn conversations and shared files into images, video and documents using Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat and more than 70 other tools. Article 50 of the EU AI Act [...]